Flustered France keep grand-slam hopes alive

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WHAT a curate’s egg of a team France are. With a display of forward power that can only be described as bone-crushing mixed with some back play that was truly lamentable, they somehow survived an extraordinary rally by Wales to win this game. France deserved the victory. Wales can have no qualms about that. If enthusiasm and excitement are anything to go by then the spectators at the Millennium Stadium would have been engorged on a glorious spring afternoon.

Having taken a lead of 14 points France had to defend for their lives at the end, after a try by